{"type":"documents","slug":"1535-stockholm-halo-documentary-record","title":"Stockholm Halo Record, 1535","url":"https://disclosdex.com/documents/1535-stockholm-halo-documentary-record","description":"Stockholm document sources of the April 1535 halo event, its commissioned painting, provenance chain, and interpretation shifts.","date":"1535-04-20T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["Chronicle"],"disclosureRating":6,"connectionCount":0,"content":{"markdown":"The surviving record links the halo over Stockholm on 20 April 1535 to a citywide interpretive response in church context and to a painting tradition that kept the memory visible for centuries.[^1][^2]\n\n## source origin\n\nThe core source is Vädersolstavlan, described as an image of Stockholm tied to the 1535 event and preserved as the oldest known city depiction in its own documentation set.[^1]\nIt is specifically noted as tied to Storkyrkan, where the painting tradition is recorded as part of Stockholm’s earliest visual record-making around the phenomenon.[^1]\n\n## named recorders/commissioning context\n\nStockholm educational framing names reformer Olaus Petri as the likely commissioner, and explains how the sky appearance was interpreted as an ominous signal during the early Vasa period.[^1][^2]\nThose accounts place interpretation in the hands of clerical and civic observers rather than a single scientific witness, a pattern reinforced by later commentary on public reaction and religious meaning.[^2]\nThe present panel is said to be a 1636 copy by Jacob Elbfas, while the 1535 original is treated as lost; later museum analysis preserved the copied chain for scholarship.[^1][^3][^6]\n\n## archive preservation\n\nStockholm source pages and museum-linked records describe a 1998/99 conservation cycle that reclassified the panel from believed original to documented 17th century copy based on technical evidence.[^1][^3]\nThe same records preserve object custody metadata and museum attribution, while the Riksarkivet collection list places “Vädersolstavlan i Storkyrkan” inside an archive series used for historical reference.[^1][^5]\n\n## interpretation shifts\n\nFirst-order explanations emphasized prophecy, divine warning, and political theology in the immediate memory tradition, while later scholarship stresses image analysis and material provenance.[^2][^4]\nModern catalog and image records show a second-layer interpretation where authenticity, condition, conservation, and reproduction history now define the document’s evidentiary role in the same story.[^1][^3][^6][^7]\n\n## References\n\n[^1]: [Stockholmskällan: Vädersolstavlan – en bild av Stockholm år 1535](https://stockholmskallan.stockholm.se/post/2)\n[^2]: [Stockholmskällan: Målningen som användes för att näpsa Gustav Vasa](https://stockholmskallan.stockholm.se/post/28475)\n[^3]: [Stockholmskällan: Vädersolstavlan i Storkyrkan – konservering och teknisk analys](https://stockholmskallan.stockholm.se/post/8170)\n[^4]: [Stockholmskällan: Vädersolstavlan i Storkyrkan – analys av stadsbild och bebyggelse](https://stockholmskallan.stockholm.se/post/8154)\n[^5]: [Riksarkivet, Nils Östmans arkiv, Historia-serie, volymöversikt med “Vädersolstavlan i Storkyrkan”](https://sok.riksarkivet.se/?postid=Arkis+1db9a8ea-168b-4d78-8544-cf72492d9cf3&s=TARKIS08_Balder)\n[^6]: [DigitaltMuseum: Litografi, Sjöhistoriska museet, Vädersolstavlan litografi](https://digitaltmuseum.se/011024830894/litografi)\n[^7]: [Wikimedia Commons: Vädersolstavlan 1535a image provenance](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AV%C3%A4dersolstavlan_1535a.jpg)","readingTime":"2 min read"},"relatedRecords":[],"citation":{"canonicalUrl":"https://disclosdex.com/documents/1535-stockholm-halo-documentary-record","title":"Stockholm Halo Record, 1535","publisher":"Disclosdex","retrievedFrom":"https://disclosdex.com/api/v1/documents/1535-stockholm-halo-documentary-record","license":"CC-BY-4.0"}}